Students complain BBC risked their lives in North Korea

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The BBC withheld key information from students, placing them in danger during
the making of an undercover documentary in North Korea, according to the
London School of Economics.

The group from the LSE were not informed until they had landed in Beijing, en
route to Pyongyang, that they would be accompanied by a three-person Panorama
film crew posing as scholars and academics. Some may even have been kept in
the dark about the scale of the risk they were taking until they were inside
North Korea.

The BBC was under mounting pressure yesterday to withdraw the programme, due
to be